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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * USA - Diesel Hybrid Trash Trucks Clean Up Their Act
Company sources also noted that it will take federal incentives to bring the technology to market
Washington, DC,USA -Reuter, by Joanna Schroeder -Jun 16, 2009: -- Mack Trucks, Inc. participated in the Hybrid Truck Users Forum (HTUF) of CALSTART, and gave federal legislators and policymakers a first-hand look at its parallel diesel-electric hybrid technology, known as the MACK TerraPro Cabover, for heavy-duty trucks... Mack is initially introducing these technology in refuse trucks, aka garbage trucks, where hybrid technology seems to have the greatest impact due to the stop-and-go nature of the trash pick-up system... The largest benefit of the technology is that it has a 30 percent fuel economy improvement in stop-and-go applications and meets the EPA's 10 emission regulations. The truck is currently being tested in New York... (Photo: Mack's Terra Pro Low Entry)* Mack Trucks Extends Summer Production Shutdown
Macungie,PEN,USA -WFMZ/TV -16 June 2009: -- The production lines will be closed down a little longer than expected at the Mack Trucks plant in Lehigh County... Officials say the normal two-week summer shutdown will be extended by one week and start on July 20. That means employees at the Lower Macungie Township plant will be off the job for three weeks... Mack officials say the extension is due to the low demand in the trucking industry.,,* Freightliner Unveils New Gas-Powered Trucks
Portland,OR,USA -Transport Topics -16 June 2009: -- Freightliner Trucks and Cummins Westport Inc. said Thursday they plan to begin selling a new line of natural gas-powered trucks... The company said it would offer the Business Class M2 112 model medium-duty truck in six configurations using liquefied or compressed natural gas... The trucks will be powered by a Cummins Westport ISL G natural gas-driven engine, which the companies said already complies with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards set to go into effect in January...* Oklahoma truck maker wins contract with Air Force to replace less-efficient fleet
Poteau,Oklahoma City,OK,USA -NewsOK.com, by DEBBIE BLOSSOM -June 13, 2009: -- Local truck manufacturer Tiger Truck has snagged an $11 million General Services Administration contract to make 863 vehicles for the U.S. Air Force... The facility, which opened in July, employs 90 workers who staff a single shift that can produce 35 vehicles per day, the company said... The Air Force will be replacing larger vehicles that were more costly to operate for base use, Walter Levering, vice president of business development for Tiger said. The switch to smaller vehicles is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that is encouraging federal fleet managers to convert gas-guzzling fleets to more efficient and alternate energy transportation... (Photo: Poteau-based Tiger Truck will produce these small, fuel-efficient models for the U.S. Air Force) * Tow truck maker rolling through stalled economy
Ooltewah,TN,USA -Chattanooga Times Free Press, by Amy Williams -June 14, 2009: -- If you're ever unlucky enough to need a tow, chances are the truck that shows up to save the day was made the road in Ooltewah by Miller Industries... Even though the locally-based tow truck and recovery equipment maker is the largest company of its kind in the world, few trucks on the road bear the Miller name. Instead they are manufactured under brand names like Chevron, Challenger, Century, Holmes and Vulcan... Miller Industries started in the early 1990s, though its roots go back to the earliest days of the tow truck... Today the company employs 700 people worldwide with about 400 of them in Ooltewah. The rest are divided among the company's facilities in England and France... (Photo by Tim Barber - Miller Industries Chief Financial Officer Vince Mish walks behind a new tow truck on Monday that was built for NASCAR's Daytona International Speedway. The truck will be delivered in time for the July 4th racing events)Labels: truckmakers news USA
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